Financial Controller

Stake is looking for a Financial Controller to join our wonderful Finance team, at our brand new CBD office, within a flexible hybrid working model!

We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company. Today we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.

At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do. Just like our customers, we’re driven by ambition. Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in. Though we’re spread around the world, we’re a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone. 

Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way.

Stake is looking for a commercially minded, technically strong and highly collaborative Financial Controller to uplift the maturity of financial control and risk management across the Finance team. As a senior member of the function, you’ll build scalable processes, drive efficiency and support customer-centric outcomes while also shaping and accelerating Stake’s treasury capability. 

You will be joining our high-performing Finance team who enables and supports our Australia, New Zealand, India and Brazil operations during an exciting hyper-growth phase. Opportunity to work in a truly customer-centric environment where innovative and seamless products and services are evolving the way Australians and Kiwis invest. 

Further responsibilities include:

• Oversee day-to-day corporate finance activities, ensuring financial control is executed accurately, efficiently and in a scalable way that supports a smooth stakeholder experience. Own the month-end close process and prepare financial statements for the group, including all legal entities, in line with relevant financial reporting frameworks. Manage the annual financial statement audit and liaise with external auditors and advisors to achieve a clean, timely sign-off.
• Lead regulatory compliance and reporting from a financial perspective, ensuring timely and accurate submissions under all relevant licences and regulations, including AFSL and FCA
• Act as a trusted partner to operational and product teams to embed commercial control ownership and ensure finance considerations are integrated into new or redesigned processes and product requirements
• Manage the treasury function in a complex financial environment and heavily contribute to the future build and simplification of customer and company cash flows
• Ensure compliance with all tax regulations and oversee the preparation and filing of tax returns and lodgements
• Establish and maintain internal controls and documentation that are fit for Stake’s maturity and safeguard company assets while supporting regulatory compliance
• Lead, coach and develop a team of accountants, setting objectives, managing performance and ensuring high-quality outputs

• Qualified accountant (CA/CPA or equivalent)
• Significant technical accounting experience (8+ years), including hands-on ownership of statutory accounts and financial reporting
• Background in financial services or fintech, ideally with exposure to AFSL regulation and complex treasury environments
• Experience articulating finance requirements and ensuring they’re factored into new products is highly desirable, particularly in areas shaping customer cashflow journeys
• Proven experience managing audits and working with external auditors to deliver statutory accounts
• Knowledge of tax compliance (desirable)
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders
• A practical mindset for process improvement and automation, backed by a track record of implementing scalable processes

At Stake, we’re more interested in your attitude than your resume. If you believe this is a role you want to jump into, please apply and let us know why in your cover letter!

You’ll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks.

Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under our Grow with Stake program. They include:

• Career relevant development and training with professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Sonder - healthcare, safety support and EAP for you and your immediate family
• Additional leave types (Swap days, Bear Days, TOIL, Compassionate, Sorry Business)
• Employee Share Options scheme for senior leaders
• Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
• Recognition awards and team celebrations
• Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus

Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We’re proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We’re also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women. 

It all comes together to explain why Stake placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand.

Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and you'll hear from us either way. We’re committed to responding to every applicant. If we think you’d be a good addition to our team, we’ll give you a call and from there, you'll cruise through our recruitment process.

To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.